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Blackvegetable » 15 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

15 minutes ago

Tiny,

You posted some AI slop.


I posted a fact...

There are far too many others....with which you are unfamiliar...

This will mean that you will reach for more AI slop.

So it will become a matter of me having to curbstomp a bunch of AI slop.
 

 

Seems it was exactly as the AI said it was. 

Insight into failed ‘99 attack



Efforts to launch an attack from Canada around the time of millennium celebrations in 2000 “may have been part of bin Laden’s first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the U.S.,” the document stated.Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam, who was caught trying to cross the Canadian border with explosives about 60 miles north of Seattle in late 1999, told the FBI that he alone conceived an attack on Los Angeles International Airport, but that bin Laden lieutenant Abu Zubaydah “encouraged him and helped facilitate the operation,” the document said. Ressam is still awaiting sentencing after agreeing to testify in other terrorism cases.Zubaydah was a senior al-Qaida planner who was captured in Pakistan in March 2002.

Al-Qaida members, some of them American citizens, had lived in or traveled to the United States for years, the memo said.“The group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks,” it warned.The document said that “some of the more sensational threat reporting” — such as an intelligence tip in 1998 that bin Laden wanted to hijack aircraft to win the release of fellow extremists — could not be corroborated.One item in the memo referred to “recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.” A White House official speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity said that was a reference to two Yemeni men the FBI interviewed and concluded were simply tourists taking photographs.On May 15, 2001, a caller to the U.S. embassy in the United Arab Emirates warned of planned bin Laden attacks with explosives in the United States, but did not say where or when.The CIA reported the incident to other government officials the next day, and a dozen or more steps were taken by the CIA and other agencies “to run down” the information from the phone call, senior administration officials said Saturday evening.One official said references to al-Qaida in prior presidential briefings “would indicate ’they are here, they are there’ in various countries and the CIA director would tell the president what was being done to address “these